Testing Without #API | @CloudExpo @Parasoft #APM #SDN #AI #DevOps

With the complexity of today’s applications, it’s easy to end up in a situation where all of the pieces of your code aren’t ready at the same time. As a developer, you might be waiting for a third-party API to get updated, a partner organization to finish their code, or other teams in your organization to have a component ready to start testing against. This can be a drag on your organization’s entire release schedule, as testing is backed up waiting for all the pieces to be finished.

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Facebook vs. Data Portability | @CloudExpo #Cloud #BigData #Storage

From 2006 to 2011, Power Ventures operated a groundbreaking online communications, personal data management, and social networking aggregator hosted at the website www.power.com. Power offered registered users the capacity to access multiple online social networks (e.g., LinkedIn, Twitter), messaging services (e.g., Microsoft messenger—MSN), and email accounts (e.g., Google mail) through a single, integrated online interface consisting of a digital dashboard and browser. This online interface also featured popular add-in applications like a unified address book and mailbox integrating all of a user’s contacts, emails, social network messages, and instant messages in one place. The interface additionally enabled Power users to move files between different accounts with a click-and-drag function, like a user moves folders on an AppleOS or Microsoft Windows desktop.

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Adobe’s First Quarter Beats Estimates

Adobe Systems Inc posted an impressive first-quarter results that beat the analysts estimates. It reported a revenue of $1.68 billion that amounted to an adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.94. This was higher than what the analysts expected, which was a revenue of $1.65 billion and an EPS of $0.87. In fact, this revenue represents a 22 percent increase.

Much of this increase can be attributed to the astounding success of Adobe’s Creative Cloud Platform, which is one of  Adobe’s core media franchises. Total revenue from this line of business was $942 million, representing an increase of 29 percent. Also, this arm of business was responsible for 56 percent of Adobe’s total revenue.

This giant share of Creative Cloud Platform, in many ways, reflects the strategic shift made by the company over the last few years. A change in its business model, which is to move to a subscription-based revenue stream, has augured well for the company. Prior to this strategy, the company had focused much on the sale of its software package licenses.

So, why this shift boosted the company’s revenue? Earlier, a software license meant that users bought it once and used it across different systems until they ran out of its use. In other words, this was a one-time purchase only. On the other hand, a subscription model is a recurring stream of revenue, as users have to pay monthly or yearly for using the same package.

On the face of it, you may think the difference won’t be much because the company is getting a bulk amount while selling a software license as opposed to monthly billing. In addition, monthly billing leads to accrued income whereas an outright license sale can bring in current revenue.

Well, there are a few aspects you’re missing here. First off, when a user wants to use the same product across a number of computers, he or she will have to buy separate subscriptions because in most cases, one subscription is valid for one computer only In the case of an outright buy, the same cost was split across two or more computers, depending on the license terms of Adobe.

The second and the more important aspect is the elimination of piracy. Like many software companies, Adobe was also losing a substantial amount of money through software piracy where the same software was copied, tampered and resold in the black market. With a subscription-model, there is no such problem as anyone who wants to use the software has to subscribe for it. A simple and neat choice, that also makes management easy.

As a result of this change, Adobe was able to bring in more cash flow into its fold. Reports show that this company’s cash flow from operations increased by 47 percent to $730.37 million. The net income rose to $398.45 million or 80 cents per share. A year earlier, it was $254.31 million or 50 cents per share.

Due to this big result, the shares of Adobe was up by four percent during after-hours trading. Currently, it is trading at $127.25.

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CIOs look to hybrid cloud future – with security a positive

CIOs are preferring hybrid cloud models with security the primary motivation for adoption, according to a new study from NetApp.

The research, which polled 750 CIOs and IT managers in France, Germany and the UK, saw more than half of respondents in each country saying they use a combination of private and public cloud. Germany came out on top with 69%, compared with France (61%) and UK (58%). In terms of partner options, local service providers are the most popular, cited by a combined 26% of respondents, ahead of larger cloud service providers (18%) and global system integrators (17%).

56% of base respondents say security is the key motivation for cloud adoption, ahead of flexibility (55%) and cost savings (54%). For individual results, 61% of French respondents chose ease of use, while 53% in Germany cite data protection.

When it came to specific workloads, it was the usual routine on the whole. 60% of German respondents cite file storage compared with 56% for the UK and 53% for France. The study noted a wide variety of other workloads, from remote working, collaboration tools, analysis, and disaster recovery.

Only 3% of respondents say they are not using any cloud services, or are still in the gestation stage.

“Enterprises need to be able to choose which workloads belong in the cloud and choose the best partners to move them across a hybrid landscape,” said Martin Warren, NetApp cloud solutions marketing manager EMEA. “They need to have visibility into cost, performance and data placement to make informed business and regulatory decisions across the full data lifecycle. And they want to harness every advantage of cloud economics – from new ideas to concepts to production. We have strong solutions and strategies to deliver all of this.”

Writing for this publication last month, David H Deans noted the importance of the ‘torchbearer’ CIO when it came to hybrid IT and business models. “Torchbearer CIOs place far more emphasis on building an agile organisational culture – one that supports rapid software developer experimentation and IT services prototyping – to help their team reach the market first with innovative new offerings,” Deans wrote.

“In addition, the torchbearer CIOs are eager to form partnerships that exploit the full potential of digital business technologies. They recognise that few enterprises can provide the full array of products, services and experiences that their stakeholders need and want.”

A Hybrid Data Pipeline | @CloudExpo @ProgressSW #BigData #AI #DataLake

My team embarked on building a data lake for our sales and marketing data to better understand customer journeys. This required building a hybrid data pipeline to connect our cloud CRM with the new Hadoop Data Lake. One challenge is that IT was not in a position to provide support until we proved value and marketing did not have the experience, so we embarked on the journey ourselves within the product marketing team for our line of business within Progress.
In his session at @BigDataExpo, Sumit Sarkar, Product Marketing Engineer at Progress, will discuss how the key to delivering on this was using standard interfaces using a bi-directional data pipeline to connect the systems. On the Salesforce side, we were able to get frictionless access to the data lake using clicks-not-code via OData. On the Hadoop side, we were able to ingest data from Salesforce using JDBC for Apache Sqoop. Join us to hear best practices and lessons learned.

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HTBase to Exhibit at @CloudExpo New York | @HTBase #AI #ML #SDN #SDDC

SYS-CON Events announced today that HTBase will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. HTBase (Gartner 2016 Cool Vendor) delivers a Composable IT infrastructure solution architected for agility and increased efficiency. It turns compute, storage, and fabric into fluid pools of resources that are easily composed and re-composed to meet each application’s needs. With HTBase, companies can quickly provision resources and deploy unique, mission-critical, self-designed solutions to add-onto or create any type of infrastructure as per the business requirement. HTBase is the first company to enable a true multi-cloud strategy, enabling organizations to automate movement of data and workloads between private and public clouds. This means that organizations can now move data and workloads between public clouds without any type of data transformation.

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Infranics to Exhibit at @CloudExpo New York | #SaaS #PaaS #IaaS #Cloud

SYS-CON Events announced today that Infranics will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Since 2000, Infranics has developed SysMaster Suite, which is required for the stable and efficient management of ICT infrastructure. The ICT management solution developed and provided by Infranics continues to add intelligence to the ICT infrastructure through the IMC (Infra Management Cycle) based on mathematical analysis and forecasting Big Data Analyze and Control.

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Both Sides of Enterprise Mobility | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Mobile #DigitalTransformation

Enterprise mobility has become table stakes in the world of business. The ability to access current information at any time, from anywhere, on any device has really become a cliché. The familiarity we all have with smartphones and wireless access, actually obscures the true difficulty of developing and executing an effective corporate mobile strategy. This reality is driven by the fact that companies must actually have two mobile strategies.

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Technology Drivers Disrupting the MSP Market | @CloudExpo #Cloud #ITaaS #Azure

Paul Guerin is a serial entrepreneur who has over 25 years of high-tech experience and channel sales and development.
What are the technology drivers creating the disruption the MSP market?
Nerdio Paul F. Guerin, VP of Sales and Business Development: The ubiquitous availability of business grade internet, enterprise class colo facilities, and advancements in virtualization technology coupled with cloud IaaS from Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure) are changing the way way MSPs deliver services to the customers in a disruptive way.

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[webinar] How to Be a Compassionate Geek | @CloudExpo @LogMeIn #DevOps

Have you ever noticed how some IT people seem to lead successful, rewarding, and satisfying lives and careers, while others struggle? IT author and speaker Don Crawley uncovered the five principles that successful IT people use to build satisfying lives and careers and he shares them in this fast-paced, thought-provoking webinar. You’ll learn the importance of striking a balance with technical skills and people skills, challenge your pre-existing ideas about IT customer service, and gain new insights into how to build your own satisfying and rewarding career by rising above the ordinary and mundane to build an extraordinary life and career as a world-class Compassionate Geek.

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